The knowledge and skills needed to perform intestinal ultrasound for inflammatory bowel diseases-An international Delphi consensus survey

Gorm Roager Madsen, Rune Wilkens, Trine Boysen, Johan Burisch, Robert Bryant, Dan Carter, Krisztina Gecse, Christian Maaser, Giovanni Maconi, Kerri Novak, Carolina Palmela, Leizl Joy Nayahangan, Martin Grønnebaek Tolsgaard

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) is a non-invasive modality for monitoring disease activity in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). IUS training currently lacks well-defined standards and international consensus on competency criteria.

AIM: To achieve international consensus on what competencies should be expected from a newly certified IUS practitioner.

METHODS: A three-round, iterative Delphi process was conducted among 54 IUS experts from 17 countries. Round 1 was a brainstorming phase with an open-ended question to identify the knowledge and skills that experts believe a newly certified IUS practitioner should possess. The experts' suggestions were then organised into statements by a Steering Committee. In round 2, the experts commented upon and rated the statements, which were revised accordingly. In round 3, the experts rated the revised statements. Statements meeting the pre-defined consensus criterion of at least 70% agreement were included in the final list of statements.

RESULTS: In total, 858 items were suggested by the experts in the first round. Based on these suggestions, 55 statements were organised into three categories: knowledge, technical skills and interpretation skills. After the second round, 53 revised statements remained. After the final round, a total of 41 statements had achieved consensus.

CONCLUSIONS: We established international, expert consensus on the knowledge and skills that should be expected from newly certified IUS practitioners. These consensus statements are the first step towards mastery learning for IUS training. Educators can utilise these statements to design training programmes and evaluate the competencies of trainees before they engage in independent practice.

Original languageEnglish
Article number16950
JournalAlimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Volume56
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)263-270
Number of pages8
ISSN0269-2813
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

Keywords

  • Consensus
  • Delphi Technique
  • Humans
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/diagnostic imaging
  • Ultrasonography

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